SUFFRAGETTES IN CHURCH.
ANOTHER SERVICE INTERRUPTED.
'UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGBT] (Received February 23, 5.25 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23.
Suffragettes interrupted the morning service at St Giles’s Cathedral. Edinburgh, by chanting a petition “God Save Annie Kenny and Rachel Peace.”
The congregation commenced a hymn and vergers escorted the women out.
Two youths accompanying them resisted.
Mrs Pankhurst gave an address for three-quarters of an hour to a large crowd from the balcony of a private house at Glebe Place. At the close a party of women, one resembling Mrs Pankhurst, ran out and escaped after a scuffle. Detectives continued to guard Glebe Palace.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3573, 24 February 1914, Page 5
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102SUFFRAGETTES IN CHURCH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3573, 24 February 1914, Page 5
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